Identifying accessibility and how to produce accessible content

1. - Define Web Accessibility
- A practical demonstration
- Highlight Types of Disability
WEB ACCESSIBILITY
Affected
- Show how these groups access the Web
- Test
- Exercise

2. What is Web Accessibility?
• In the physical world
• Building Design
• Ramps
• Lifts
• Rails
•Automatic doors

3. What is Web Accessibility?
• In the cyber world
• Site Design
• structure
• Coding
• Presentation

4. Web Accessibility
A Practical Example
http://www.purplemustard.co.uk

5. Disabilities Affected
• Technological (devices, connections
and browsers)
– Small, low-res monitors
– Slow modems and phone lines
– Variety of browser versions
– Quasi-impairment

6. Disabilities Affected
• Physical (many people can’t
use computers in the
conventional way)
– Blind, low vision, colour blind
– Deafness or difficulty
distinguishing sounds
– Unable or painful to use mouse

7. How do people access the web?
• Screen readers (many of which are
keyboard only activated)
• Screen magnifiers (software or actual
magnifiers)
• Brail outputs

8. How do people access the web?
• Track balls
• Other assisted technology that does not use
mouse input
• PDA’s and mobile phones with small screens,
using device keyboards, styluses, scroll wheels
etc

9. What level of Web Accessibility?
• UK Government min level 2 or AA of the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• How do you test?
– http://www.cynthiasays.com/
• Provide accessibility statement
– How to, standards aimed for etc

10. Group Exercise:
Highlight to a business the benefits of
Accessibility:

11. Benefits of Accessibility
1. Increase Market Share and Audience Reach
2. Demonstrate social responsibility
3. Improve Search Engine Performance
4. Reduces Legal Liability

12. Session Summary
1. Learned what Web Accessibility is
2. Viewed an example of a poor site
3. Learned the disabilities affected
4. How they access the web & to test
5. The benefits of an accessible site

13. QUESTIONS?